We are getting used to hear that all sorts of technological innovations will help men and women live almost eternally without suffering: magic seeds, like the beans in the fairy tale, that grow without water and with therapeutic properties; colour pills that will extend our lives beyond 200 years; gene therapies that will eliminate cancer; brain...
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Politician
Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, famously
asserted at the service’s birth in 1948, “If a hospital bedpan is dropped in a
hospital corridor in Tredegar, the reverberations should echo around
Whitehall.” Southeast Wales is less than 260 miles from London; it would have
to be one very noisy reverberation...
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What could the new data protection law mean for health sector leaders? The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on 25 May 2018, replacing the 1995 Data Protection Directive. Directly binding and applicable in all EU states, the GDPR aims to protect the data and privacy of the European population by giving...
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Radiologists have been taught to fear machine learning. It means what it says, a machine can learn. It is an inherently frightening concept. It is almost a shame to put such a label on the process, because it is not really new. Remember Fuzzy Logic? Neural Networks? We were all impressed that a computer could recognize the letter “A”, but that...
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Efficient patient-centric care
models require consolidating mountains of data. Acquisitions and
regionalization further compound the challenge. How does an organization
capitalize on what could easily become a liability? Fredrik Gustavsson, Sectra CTO,
sums up the answer simply, “Don’t buy technology. Buy solutions for your
clinical pathways.”...
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Located
in Sydney’s Inner west, Canterbury Hospital has just over 200 beds. DT Research
and its partner, HPA supplied 49 Carts with DT592BU Medical-Cart Computers to
Canterbury in June 2016. Canterbury uses Surginet (Cerner) for theatre &
recovery eMR applications on their PC’s Source & Image Credit: DT Research
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